vexillum
Americannoun
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a military standard or flag carried by ancient Roman troops.
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a group of men serving under such a standard.
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video frequency.
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Botany. Also vexil the large upper petal of a papilionaceous flower.
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Ornithology Rare. the web or vane of a feather.
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ornithol the vane of a feather
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botany another name for standard
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Origin of vexillum
1720–30; < Latin: standard, flag, diminutive from the base of vēlum sail ( see veil)
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The founder and chief prophet of vexillology, Political Scientist Whitney Smith, coined the word from the Latin vexillum, or military standard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elsewhere he says: "Nullus invenitur qui iuxta iussum Domini tonantis aetherii super montes Babiloniae, caligosasque turres crucis fidei attollat vexillum, sacrificium Deo offerens vespertinum."
From Christianity and Islam in Spain (756-1031) by Haines, Charles Reginald
The original form was some fixed object such as we have seen on the Egyptian and Roman examples, and the vexillum and labarum were transitional forms.
From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Macgeorge, Andrew
The labarum, which was the imperial standard of later emperors, resembled in shape and fixing the vexillum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
Here gleamed the imperial standard, the vexillum pr�torium, the flag of the General, Belisarius.
From The Scarlet Banner by Dahn, Felix
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